Bell guide



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E. R. DAVIS EETS'SHEET 1 Nvr INVENTOR AT RNEY Patented Feb. 6, i923.

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ELWOOD It. DAVIS, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNEGTIGUT, ASSIGNDB, T0 WINCHESTER REPEA'IING ARMS COMPANY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

BELL GUIDE.

Application filed December 15, 1921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, ELwooD R. DAVIS, a citizen of the United States,.residing at West Haven, in the county of New Haven, State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bell Guides; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Guides are used on fishing poles to guide the line in its forward or backward travel between reel and pole tip. To prevent wear on the line, these guides are shaped to present a flaring or bell shaped mouth to the line, whether the line is travelling toward or away from the reel. It is common practice to make these guides of metal by stamping them out from a fiat sheet and then rolling and pressing the blank so formed into the desired shape, after which the meeting edges are brazed together. The line of brazing is along the short element of the guide and unless the brazing is very carefully done. and the inner wearing surface of the guide is carefully finished and polished, the roughness of the joint will chafe and wear the line to an objectionable degree, and even, when the brazing and finishing are carefully done, the rubbing of the line in the guide is likely to wear the metal away at or near the brazed joint, and, because of unequal wearing qualities of the metal sheet and the brazing metal, is likely to score or groove the guide and develop rough edges and irregularities destructive to the line.

It is an object of the present invention to provide bell shaped guides for the lines of fishing poles, which can be made without the usual brazed seam and of such form and ma terial that the wear on the fishing line while passing through these guides will be reduced to a minimum.

It is a further object of the invention to produce a seamless bell guide in reliable manner and with economy in labor and ma terials and of such form that it can be attached readily to fishing poles either o1 split bamboo or of metal. Other objects and advantages will become clear :t'rom the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein,

Serial No. 522,461.

Fig. 1 shows a fishing pole with three bell guides between the reel and the pole tip;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged side elevation of one of the guides;

Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the same;

F 1g. 4 shows the guide lashed to a split bamboo pole by means of windings of silk;

F 1g. 5 shows a seamless tube from which a plurality of guides are made;

F 6 is an end elevation of the tube;

Fig. 7 is a plan view of the tube after part oi the metal has been cut and trimmed away to blank out two guides;

Fig. 8 is a side view of the same;

Fig. 9 shows the blank in elevation utter the burrs have been removed.

Figs. 10 to 16 inclusive illustrate the shearing or swaging steps of the method.

Figs. 1''? to 26 inclusive show subsequent steps in the shaping of the metal into the desired bell guide.

27 is a plan view of a completed guide.

Figs. 28 is a side elevation and 29 is an end elevation of the same.

The fishing pole (Fig. 1) has a real 1 and pole tip .2 and in its passage to or from the reel, the line is guided by a plurality oi guides 3, suitably distributed aloiig the pole. As shown in Fig. 4, each of these guides can be fastened in position on the pole by means of windings l and 5. the pole is of split bamboo, these windings ordinarily are of silk thread. On a metal pole, they are of wire.

These guides are often subjected to heavy wear from the line, particularly when the fishing pole is used for casting or when for other reason the line is being rapidly let out or reeled in. The guides must function whether the line is passing through them in one direction or the other.

The improved uide may be made by first drawing into a seamless tube, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, a ductile metal, preferably non-corrosive in character, such as an alloy of nickel and silver. This may be done b ordinary metal working processes. Such tube may well have an external diameter of .209.2ll and an internal diameter oi .l59.i6l.

This seamless tube of drawn ductile metal is next cut away, as by milling and trimming. to leave the blank in the form shown in Figs. 7 and 8. It has a plurality of to.- bular bodies, 6 and 7, integral with a web which consists of end portions 8 and 9 and a central portion 10. Each of the tubular bodies is beveled at its ends 11 and 12, the beveled edges merging into the metal of the web. Further cutting and trimming may be necessary to remove burrs from the cut edge or from the inside of the tubular bodies at the points marked 13 and 14.- of Fig. 9.

The trimmed blank is next sheared along the line 15 (Fig. 10) diagonally of the cen tral web 10, thereby separating the tubular bodies 6 and 7 from one another.

The next step in the method consists in swaging the web portions 8 and 10 (Fig. 13) to flatten them and to provide stock from which to out feet integral with the tubular body and useful in securing the guide to the fishing pole. As indicated in Fig. 14:, the swaging operation may be used to taper the metal of the web from the tubular body outward to the ends of the blank- The swaged blank is then trimmed to convert the flattened web portions 8 and 10 into feet 16 and 17, which are integral with the tubular body 6 and taper in thickness and in width. The structure is then trimmed and filed smooth, particularly at the corners marked 18 and 19, Figs. 19 and 20 respectively.

The next step consists in upsetting and expanding the tubular body to bell both ends of the opening therethrough, as indicated in Figs. 21 to 23 inclusive. Incidental to this, the feet 16 and 17 are bent downward about as shown in Fig. 22. Ordinarily the upsetting and expanding operation can advantageously be repeated to further bell the opening through the tubular body as shown in Figs. 24 to 26 inclusive.

With the structure reduced to the form shown in Fig. 25, the final operation consists in straightening and bending up the feet 16 and 17 into the position shown in Figs. 27 to 29 inclusive, so that they can lie fiat against the side of the fishing pole with the tubular body spaced from the pole to hold the guided fishing line out of contact with the windings by which the feet 16 and 17 are lashed to the pole. The guide is then polished.

Starting with a drawn tube, as shown in Fig. 5, with the dimensions above mentioned, the finished guide can properly have an internal diameter of 160-170 at the narrow part and an external diameter of .310.325 across the mouth of each bell. These dimensions are but illustrative of the nature and extent of the upsetting and expanding operation and can be departed from without departing from the invention as defined by the appended claims. The guides can be made in larger or smaller sizes, as desired, due allowance being made in the dimensions of the drawn tube (Fig. 5) from which the blanks are out.

For use on hexagonal or octagonal poles, such as are commonly made from split bamboo, the feet 16 and 17 can be entirely flat along their bottom faces, but for use on small round poles, such as are commonly made of steel, these feet may be swaged longitudinally to fit the curved surface of the pole. In either case, lashings of silk or wire, or equivalent devices must be used for securing the bell guide to the fishing pole.

Inasmuch as the interior or wearing face of the guide is smooth and polished and consists entirely of a single metal without any brazing and without any joints, the fishing line will pass along the guide with little friction and with little or no tendency to channel or groove theguide. The equalization of the wear on the curved face of the guide prevents the development of sharp corners or rough edges such as heretofore have been encountered in the use of guides with brazed joints.

The product above described is uniform in quality, low in cost, and reliable and-satisfactory in operation. This improved product may be made in a manner which is economical in labor and in material, and is well adapted for machine production in large volume.

I claim:

1. A guide for a fishing pole, comprising a tubular body, belled at both ends and having feet extending from the ends of the body, the inner surface of the body being continuous with the adjacent surfaces of the feet, thereby to present a smooth and twin terrupted surface for the movement of the line.

2. A guide for a fishing pole, comprising a seamless tubular body, belled at both ends, and having integral feet, by which the guide can be attached to the pole, the inner surface of the body being continuous with the adjacent surfaces of the feet, thereby to prevent interference with the movement of the line.

3. A guide for a fishing pole, comprising a seamless tubular body, belled at both ends, and having feet extending from the ends of the body, the inner surface of the body being continuous with the adjacent surfaces of the feet, thereby to avoid interference with the movement of the line.

%l. A guide for a fishing pole, comprisinga seamless tubular body, symmetric-ally belled at both ends, and having integral feet, by which it can be lashed to the pole, said feet tapering in width and in thickness, and the upper surfaces thereof being continuous with the inner surface of the body substantially as described.

5. guide for a fishingpole comprising a tubular body having integral feet ex- 10 being offset from the body to space the body away from the pole when the feet are superimposed thereon the body being symmetrically belied at both ends to provide an arched interior surface between the feet, and said surface being continuous at its ends with the adjacent surfaces of the feet.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ELWOOD R. DAVIS. 

